Collection

2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Nandika D'Souza, University of Texas at Dallas; Hector R. Siller, University of North Texas; Hyun Kyoung Kyoung Ro, University of North Texas; Debbie Huffman, North Central Texas College; Mary J Combs, Quality Measures

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Diversity

composites. She has co-authored6 book chapters, 100 peer reviewed journal and over 100 conference publications. She has received over$7 M in external research funding. She was recognized as a Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineersin 2013 and American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2023. She received the 2015 DistinguishedEngineering Educator Award by the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), 2022 WEPAN Exemplary ServiceAward, 2022 SAMPE DEI Impact Award for her efforts to be inclusive. As a board member ofWEPAN, she hosted 12 webinars to provide best practices to implementing DEI with cultural humility asthe framework (bidirectional learning). She has integrated Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers,National Society of Black Engineers and

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wynn Tranfield, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

user research as anethnographic assessment, embedding themselves in engineering labs. During the study, librariansserved as a point of need for resources, mentors, and instructors during lab meetings. Thisapproach provided librarians with deep knowledge of their liaison area’s research practices, butwas limited in tracking how students, staff, and faculty responded to this exposure [12]. Outside of libraries, numerous studies have interrogated success and failures of specificengineering departments using user-centered models. Villanova University’s Engineeringprogram noted a comparatively high number of female graduates compared to the nationalaverage, and sought out students to help explain [13]. Focus groups surfaced themes of

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

JAMES WANLISS, Anderson University

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D)

University, SCAbstractIt is vital to guarantee that engineering graduates have learned essential skills required to excel ina dynamic technological landscape. Today the proliferation of low-cost, high-speed computingdevices offer opportunities for design and control of systems with varying levels of complexity.What this means in practice is that engineers increasingly need expert knowledge of variouscomputer systems and software. Computing expertise once considered arcane must now becomecommonplace. We develop a novel Machine Learning (ML) course, designed for allundergraduate engineering majors with appropriate programming and mathematics background,to take as an elective in their junior or senior year. The course introduces deep learning

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The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

  21 Century,  Rising  Above  the  Gathering  Storm:  Energizing  and  Employing  America  for  a  Brighter   st   Economic  Future.  Washington,  D.C.,  National  Academies  Press  (2005).     4. Duderstadt,  J.  J.,  Engineering  for  a  Changing  World:  A  Roadmap  to  the  Future  of  Engineering   Practice,  Research,  and  Education.  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan,  University  of  Michigan  Press,  (2007).     5. Boyer,  E.  ,  Reinventing  Undergraduate  Education  (The  Boyer  Commission  Report).  New  York:   Carnegie  Foundation  (2001).     6. Clough,  G.  W.  (Chair),  The  Engineer  of  2020:  Visions  of  Engineering  in  the  New  Century.  National   Academy  of

Conference Session

Balancing Personal and Professional Life

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vladimir Goncharoff; Patrick Troy; John Bell; Dale Reed; Cathleen Theys; Ann Ford; Susan Montgomery

neverhappened. While at UM I initially taught a variety of chemical engineering courses, includingsenior plant design, reactor design, and unit operations laboratories. Later I taught college-levelcomputing courses including introductory freshman computing and graduate courses in scientificvisualization and virtual reality programming. I also conducted research, in conjunction withH. Scott Fogler, into the use and development of virtual reality for chemical engineeringeducation. This research was conducted with undergraduate student programmers, and produceda number of virtual-reality based educational modules. Papers were written predominantly forASEE and AIChE annual conferences[1-3], plus a few journal articles[4-6

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Manufacturing Division (MFG) Technical Session 7

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Walter Huffman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kaitlyn Becker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rebecca E Zubajlo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Warren P. Seering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Manufacturing Division (MFG)

Engineering Department at MIT. She‬K‭has served in various teaching capacities from undergraduate instructor to lead instructor of‬ ‭courses in design and manufacturing in the departments of mechanical engineering and materials‬ ‭science at MIT over the course of eighteen years. Her PhD research and current lab focus on‬ ‭projects at the intersection of design and manufacturing, with challenging materials and‬ ‭environments. For five years prior to graduate study, she worked as a manufacturing engineer in‬ ‭the medical device and microfabrication industries. This time in industry, combined with her‬ ‭experience as an undergraduate student taking the same course, as well as family members‬ ‭specializing in education careers have

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne D. Bilbeisi; Camille F. DeYong

information. Next, an OSU graduate student in speech communication presented anevening session on effective oral communication. Finally, the REACH participants shared anevening meal and additional personal discussions with nine female mentors. The mentors wereaccomplished professionals in Oklahoma, as all are practicing architects or engineers.Academic ModulesArchitectureTo begin understanding the aspects of the career of an architect, students were asked to designan artist’s display module for a park in downtown Oklahoma City. The students werechallenged to rethink their conventional notions of what an artist’s display module could be;they were asked to consider the problem as “functional sculpture”. Issues of public circulation,image, and display

Conference Session

LGBTQ+ Track - Technical Session III

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity, LGBTQ+

indicated theirwillingness to share the information with selected faculty who they thought might be interested,no additional participants were gleaned from this recruitment method. One organizationalrepresentative requested that the researcher obtain full institutional review board approval fromthe target institution prior to allowing the request for participation to be shared with theirengineering faculty. While this may be standard practice for that institution, it set a high barriergiven that the likely best-case result would have been only one or two additional participants.Additional details regarding the methodology for this study are beyond the scope of this paperbut are detailed in a separate paper presented at the ASEE Zone IV conference

Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 8

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liliana Lozada-Medellin, University of Texas, El Paso; Ivonne Santiago, University of Texas, El Paso; Yuanrui Sang

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

architect. During her time in UTEP graduate school, she conducted research for the civil engineering (CE) department on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles technology on construction-site workers safety. She also conducted joint research for the National Science Foundation’s ASPIRE (Advancing Sustainable through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification) Engineering Research Center and the US Department of Transportation’s CAR- TEEH (Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health). She evaluated the environmental and social justice impacts of the electrified technologies (electric vehicles (EVs), EV charging stations, and electrified roadways) with a focus on underrepresented communities.Dr

Conference Session

Springfield's STEM Spectacle: Evaluating Engineering Excellence, D'oh!

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jose Capa Salinas, Purdue University; Manuel Salmeron, Purdue University; Gaurav Chobe, Purdue University; Herta Montoya, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Morgan R Broberg, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

the TRB Standing Committee on Seismic Design and Performance of Bridges and holds a Remote Pilot UAS license.Manuel Salmeron, Purdue University Manuel Salmer´on is currently a 4th year PhD student in Structural Engineering at Purdue University, under the supervision of Prof. Shirley J. Dyke. He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering and a M.Sc. in Structural Engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His research interests include cyber-physical testing, stochastic modeling of degradation phenomena, and the development of decision-making tools for socio-technical systems.Gaurav Chobe, Purdue University Gaurav Chobe is a Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering at Purdue University. His research

Conference Session

ECE-Faculty Perspectives and Curriculum Evolution

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neil Rogers, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kaitlin Fair, United States Air Force Academy

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

approaches can reduce inequities by valuing progress and learn- ing, though barriers may still arise if students lack access to resources (including time and confidence).Overall, these grading systems share the goal of fostering a deeper, more meaningful educationalexperience, with ongoing research and case studies contributing to best practices for their imple-mentation. It is also noteworthy that this is not a one-size-fits-all approach, and faculty at specificinstitutions are subject to unique constraints on a case-by-case basis. Our institution enforces someunique constraints that are discussed as applicable. Furthermore, neither of the authors had anyexpertise in alternative grading and we consider this initial attempt a pilot upon

Conference Session

Mentoring Women and Minorities

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Linse; Rebecca Bates

Educationhaving a set agenda for each discussion meeting. Additionally, more time could be spentexploring current research to build experience connecting available research findings withteaching practice.V. Example Active Learning Modules Developed by StudentsThe following is a list of some of the modules developed by students in the course. Theplanning of these modules typically took less than 5 hours. • Role-playing to learn about transportation safety. Roles included: urban planner, bicyclists, drivers, environmentalists, construction contractors and historians, with the "teacher" playing the expert role of transportation engineer. While senior design students may practice their skills on this type of problem, role

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Evelyn R. Sowells, North Carolina A&T State University; Nina Exner, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University; Sherry F. Abernathy, North Carolina A&T State University; Rajeev K. Agrawal, North Carolina A&T State University ; Brenda S. Faison Ph.D., North Carolina A&T State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Systems Technology at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT), Greensboro, North Carolina for last five years. His current research focuses on Big data Analytics, Cloud Computing, and Content-based Image Retrieval. He received the best paper award for his paper on Image Clustering Using Multimodal Key- words in the International Conference on Semantics and Digital Media Technology, Athens, Greece. He has published more than 40 referred journal and conference papers and 4 book chapters. He has been project manager and a member of several research and industrial grants. Dr. Agrawal actively serves as committee member and reviewer for conferences and journals in his area of research. He is a

Collection

2025 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Abigail Neering; Mitchell Keck; Julia Reyna; Natcin Sorensen; Travis Price; Randy Hurd

project manager and expected us tomeet the agreed upon design requirements, stay under budget, and finish on schedule. In order toguide us to meet these criteria, we created a timeline, had specific project assignments, and gaveregular reports on our progress. After conducting research, we started designing our prototypeand pitched the initial concept and budget to both our client and professor. After approval andsmall revisions, we had the first working iteration finished. For our customer, it was importantthat this project was durable, intuitive for students, and attractive, while our engineeringprofessor wanted technical elements, reports, and assignments. In the end we were able to satisfyboth parties with a project that met the expectations

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Martello, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Jonathan Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Liberal Education

technical community have called for systemic changes in engineeringeducation that include a shift to integrated and multidisciplinary approaches; an emphasis onunderstanding of societal impacts of engineering; increased teaming skills, includingcollaborative, active learning; and an improved capacity for life-long, self-directed learning.1,2,3This study focuses upon two of the critical skills listed above: self-directed learning andcontextual understanding.Calls for educational reform emphasize the need for new student-centered learning approachesthat aid development of broader skills and attitudes to complement traditional knowledgeacquisition.1,2 A capacity for self-direction and life-long learning is often identified as a criticaloutcome for

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Pluskwik, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Eleanor Leung, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Andrew Lillesve, Iron Range Engineering

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

to put theory into practice in the real world.She goes on to write that ”students should be continually engaged in these intellectual processesthroughout the curriculum — not just in their final year — and at an increasingly sophisticatedlevel.” She advocates for ”the need to do all of the above concurrently and continually across thecurriculum, in an intentional and coherent way, which may require a “wipe the slate clean”approach to the design of 21st century engineering education” [14].Similarly, the University of Dayton sponsors a Kern Entrepreneurial Engineer Network (KEEN)Fellows Program for faculty to reach 100 percent of the undergraduate engineering studentpopulation by significantly expanding the number of faculty involved in the

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Jeremi S. London, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Professor of Engineering at Arizona State University in the Polytech- nic School. London is a mixed methods researcher with interests in research impact, cyberlearning, and instructional change in STEM Education. Prior to ASU, London worked at the National Science Founda- tion, GE Healthcare, and Anheuser-Busch. She earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 A Way to Win: Incentivizing Engineering Faculty to Incorporate Entrepreneurship in their CoursesAbstractIt can be very challenging to incentivize engineering faculty to incorporate something

Conference Session

Educational Issues in Civil Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; HuiRu Shih, Jackson State University; Yi-Lung Mo, University of Houston

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Civil Engineering

Instruction Modelinto co-curricular design project. The development and implementation of the proposedPedagogical Model in a mainstream civil engineering curriculum and its outcomes are revealedand their further improvements are discussed. Implementation outcomes suggest that theproposed Pedagogical Model could be suitable for involving students to acquire metacognitiveknowledge and promote practice of metacongitive strategies, and has a potential for leading todevelopment of attitudes and skills for self-directed learning and creativity.Literature Review - Theoretical and Methodological Background of Proposed PedagogicalModel for Engineering EducationResearch development from Cognitive Science and Educational Psychology provides scientificframeworks

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ECE-Applications of AI and ChatGPT in Engineering Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ren Butler, Carnegie Mellon University; D. Matthew Boyer, Clemson University; Andrew Begel, Carnegie Mellon University; Rick Kubina, Pennsylvania State University; Somayeh Asadi, University of Virginia; Taniya Mishra; JiWoong Jang, Carnegie Mellon University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

Paper ID #47757Navigating the Social-Emotional Landscape of Neurodiversity in AI EducationRen Butler, Carnegie Mellon University Ren Butler is a Ph.D. student in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. Ren researches psychological safety in neurodiverse AI engineering teams. Ren aims to discover design principles for software development tools that support psychological safety among engineers with social and emotional differences. These principles can foster team learning, well-being, and productivity.Dr. D. Matthew Boyer, Clemson UniversityAndrew Begel, Carnegie Mellon University Dr. Andrew Begel, PhD

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Furterer; Lesia Crumpton-Young

the college. Thedegree of competition for space in the college’s graduate program is increasing. The pre-application process enables the departmental graduate coordinators the ability to review the pre-applicants’ qualifications to identify candidates that would be a good match for the respectiveprograms. It also allows the departmental graduate coordinators to waive the application fees ofthe prospective applicants. The Six Sigma project helped to define improvements to the pre-application process, as well as identify areas for improvement to enhance the technology that isused within the pre-application process. The team effectively used benchmarking techniques toidentify and compare best practices use of technology for the pre-application

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 17

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Allison Antink-Meyer, Illinois State University; Ryan A. Brown, Illinois State University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

[12] Moore, T. J., Tank, K. M., Glancy, A. W., & Kersten, J. A. (2015). NGSS and the landscape of engineering indesign [8] [15]. While gaps in understanding in about engineering processes are important (and K‐12 state science standards. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 52(3), 296-318.are in addition to the need for support around pedagogical and pedagogical content knowledge(PCK) for engineering instruction), this project focused on the epistemology of engineering. The [13] Osborne, J. W., Costello, A. B., & Kellow, J. T. (2008). Best practices in exploratory factor analysis. Bestteachers targeted by our PD

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Moore; Mary Raber

of global markets and competition • demonstrated management skills and a strong business senseMany of these skills and expertise are not easily taught within a traditional classroom setting. Infact most, if not all, of these abilities are best developed in practice. With the EnterpriseProgram, MTU has created a new and different experience designed to educate and preparegraduating engineers for more productive and successful careers. The Enterprise Curriculum isoffered as a 20-credit minor or a 12-credit concentration, typically completed over two to three-years. The curriculum is two-pronged and consists of 1) participation in the operation of abusiness (project work) and 2) completion of concentrated course material

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda DeAngelo, University of Pittsburgh; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Erica M. McGreevy, University of Pittsburgh; Eric Trevor McChesney, University of Pittsburgh; Kevin R. Binning, University of Pittsburgh; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine; Christian D. Schunn, University of Pittsburgh; Charlie Díaz, University of Pittsburgh; Gerard Dorvè-Lewis, University of Pittsburgh; Kevin Jay Kaufman-Ortiz, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Beverly Conrique, University of Pittsburgh; Maricela Bañuelos, University of California, Irvine; Carlie Laton Cooper, M.Ed., University of Georgia; Anne-Ketura Elie, University of Pittsburgh; Rachel Kelly Forster, University of Pittsburgh; Brianna Julia Gonzalez, University of Pittsburgh ; Danielle Vegas Lewis, SUNY Fredonia ; Heather Lee Perkins, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign; Nelson O. O. Zounlomè

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

faculty mentorship, the pathway into and through graduate education, and gender and race in engineering.Dr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. She is also the Engineering Workforce Development Director for CISTAR, the Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources, a Na- tional Science Foundation Engineering Research Center. Her research focuses on how identity, among other affective factors, influences diverse students to choose engineering and persist in engineering. She also studies how different experiences within the practice and

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura L. Sullivan; Winston F. Erevelles

recommendations for (a) modified part or tool design or (b) modified laser pattern curing of part. 4. The usage of the SLA system will allow CIM students working in concurrent engineering design teams to thoroughly examine and functionally test multiple design alternatives because the time to prototype will be reduced by several orders of magnitude. This iterative process of product visualization, verification, and optimization is consistent with current best practices in industry and will constitute an invaluable learning experience. Page 1.271.3 ---- $i!ih’-’ ) 1996 ASEE

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Thomas Dodson; Nicholas Mattei; Joshua T. Guerin; Judy Goldsmith; Joan M. Mazur

andacademic advisors (e.g., you should take course X to better accomplished their goal of achieving a passing grade inprepare yourself for course Y). At the moment, only a few Algorithm Design and Analysis in four or fewerexisting systems attempt to do this [17]–[19]. Explanation is semesters from the current state.an important part of recommendation [20]. Involving users indialogue can improve the probability that recommendations The goal of this research is to explore the impact ofare considered valid and adopted [21]. explanation on the adoption of recommended courses of action The notion of uncertainty of

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

Session 3560 Improving the Classroom Environment: With a Focus on the Arab Gulf States Waddah Akili Professor of Civil Engineering (Retired) Principal, Geotechnical Engineering, Ames, IowaAbstract:This paper focuses on “viable teaching-learning” protocols for potential adoption by educators inthe Arab Gulf States, seeking to improve their classroom effectiveness. It was inspired byremarks and suggestions made by a number of engineering graduates, who have experienced“negative” aspects of the “classroom

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Karin Jensen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Sara Rose Vohra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Joseph Francis Mirabelli, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Andrea J. Kunze, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Isabel Miller, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Thomas Edward Romanchek, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

student interview data toidentify areas of agreement and disagreement that will support the development of training andresources for educators.Data CollectionThe research design and instruments were approved by the university’s Institutional ReviewBoard #20223 before data analysis began. Student participants for the cognitive interviews wererecruited through a university newsletter calling for participation from undergraduate and first-year graduate students in engineering. Faculty and staff were similarly recruited to participatethrough the same university newsletter. Student participants were offered a $10 Amazon gift cardfor participating in the cognitive interviews and faculty and staff were offered a $50 Amazon giftcard. All interviews were

Conference Session

Introducing Sustainability into Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Wiggins, University of Colorado, Boulder; Mary E. McCormick, Tufts University; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Christopher W. Swan, Tufts University; Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University

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Environmental Engineering

sustainability had beenintegrated as an important theme. However, there was generally little organization to the effortsto infuse engineering education with sustainability, and the report suggested that standardsshould be developed for sustainability in engineering education. Another finding regardingsustainability education in US engineering schools was that such education tends “to emphasizethe immediate environmental and social impacts of engineering designs”7. This indicates theabsence of a critical long term sustainability component. The present status of sustainability inhigher education has been considered as: “Although efforts are being made in pursuit ofsustainability the current glut of unsustainable practices in the US and around the globe

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division (COED) Track 5.C

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erik Verlage, The Ohio State University; Christian Gabbianelli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kachina Studer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ashim Dhakal, The Ohio State University; Zhen Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Meredith Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

Technology Zhen Zhao is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include engineering student mentorship and leadership development, engineering research center education and diversity impact evaluation, and engineDr. Meredith Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Meredith Thompson is a STEM education researcher and program manager for MIT’s Learning Engineering And Practice (LEAP) Group. Her areas of research include virtual and augmented reality, collaboration in virtual environments, STEM education in K-16, and using simulations to prepare preservice and inservice teachers. In her current role, she is a program manager for the Technologist Advanced

Conference Session

First-Year Advising and Transition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles McDowell, University of California, Santa Cruz; Adrienne Harrell, University of California, Santa Cruz

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First-Year Programs

face many challenges bothacademic and non-academic9. One widely studied impact of these challenges is transfer shock, adip in the GPAs of transfer students during the first one or two terms after transfer6. Althoughbelieved to be nearly universal, transfer shock is generally not severe10 and Cantrell et al.1 havetheorized that pre-transfer support programs are one technique that can be used to help transferstudents get through their transfer shock and “experience the rewards of their efforts.”We were interested in comparing how well our transfer students were doing in comparison withtheir native classmates. One measure of success is how long a student takes to graduate and dothey ever graduate. The most commonly used metric for graduation and